Purpose: To inform the audience about animal testing I. Introduction A. Attention getting device: Approximately 26 million animals are used every year in US laboratories for cosmetic and biomedical research. B. Thesis: I would like to inform you about how animal testing is conducted. C. Credibility: I have read and studied the articles about animal testing. D. Preview: I am going to share with you purposes of animal testing, how animals are used in laboratory tests, and the effectiveness of animal testing.
Animal testing is the act of testing products and medicines on rodents, chimpanzees, cats and etc. This is very controversial topic because most of the animal are testing on various times with no regard to their lives. After the animals are no longer able to be tested on they are put down. This is a terrible and inhumane act that is being committed by many major cosmetic companies and medicine researchers. The fact is that it is even worse to test all those products on human lives.
Animal testing has been a subject of controversy for many years and there have been some great discoveries because of it, however, has this practice been done ethically? For a cosmetic company to inject rabbit’s eyes of chemicals, thus causing it pain, is unethical and immoral. This practice negates the theory of Kant’s Practical Imperative, where animals are used for experiments, not only for life and death experiments, but for experiments that indicates whether a product has irritating side effects for humans, for example (Thiroux & Krasemann, 2015). The immorality of this practice is where scientists are subjecting pain and sometimes torture to animals for results to tests. It is immoral, as Kant suggests, to subject sentient beings to pain
Animal testing is defined as “the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as food or drugs” (“Animal Testing”). Unfortunately, some cosmetic companies treat animals unethically during testing; this brings into question whether or not the practice of animal testing can be considered ethical, or even necessary, in regards to cosmetic purposes. Those with pro-animal testing views may argue that the practice of testing cosmetics on animals is necessary for human safety, however, with modern advances in technology, there are now more options for alternatives than ever before. With support from major companies and governments, alternatives to animal testing could potentially become the standard in the near future.
To add to that, another controversial test is the LD50 test is tests the toxicity level of something on an animal and again these kill, burn, irritate, cause a rash on the animals skin. (“Animal Experimentation:An Overview”, Paragraph 2) Many people for animals rights are accusing scientist of specimism. ( “Animal Experimentation: An Overview”, Paragraph 5) Regarding the inhumanity these test have caused is even worse when the test is successful because that means they had to go through even more animals to get that far. (“Testing on animals is poorly regulated”, Section 1, Sentence 4)
Animal Testing Should we do it? Animal Testing has many harmful effects. Animal Testing has been used for over 100 years for many different reasons and purposes. Cosmetic Animal testing (which is the most common use of Animal Testing) has been banned in the European Union, India, Israel, and Norway. Here are a few ideas why we should not do it, Animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subjects.
We need to stop makeup, cleaning products, medicine and all other chemical based products being tested on animals not only because it is horrendously cruel but there is also a huge amount of money that is wasted in the process of testing. According to most statistics, human results only agree 5-25 percent of the time which means that the process of animal testing is practically pointless as the results hardly ever benefit our knowledge of how to improve the products
Animal testing is cruel and it's morally wrong to use animals in this way. The scientists put the animals through a numerous amount of painful tests. For example, they pour products into cute or wounds to see how the animal’s body reacts. They also hold animals eyes open with clips for long periods of time. Tests like those are usually used to test eyes drops or shampoo (“Should animals be used for testing?” 1).
It’s merciless to breed and cultivate millions animals for experimentation only to throw them away afterwards, especially when the information gathered from those experiments can be profoundly inaccurate and a waste of resources. The NIH, a government granting agency, used about $30 billion in 2012 to fund for research and development that included animal testing. Animal experimentation can be avoided in total with the sophisticated alternative and technologies that are available today. Since there are a profusion of alternatives to avoid the inhumane use of animal testing, animal testing in cosmetics should be prohibited entirely. In the long run, if cosmetic products cannot be labeled safe through animal testing, then there is no feasible reason to continue with the horrendous
Imagine you are smelling the flowers and are enjoying life. But, when you turn around there are people with a net ready to snatch you up. You spend the rest of your life crying out in pain, loneliness, and horror. When you go in for a test again, you are in pain, but then there is a pang of pain greater than the others. Soon the numbness kicks in and you are floating.
When it comes to commercial reasons, such as the cosmetics industry, it is foolish and inhumane to use animals as testers; there are definitely alternative methods, perhaps those that are also more cost-effective in addition to the priceless act of preserving lives. Methods that are available to researchers include in vitro testing, which involves studying cell cultures in glass dishes; micro-dosing, using minuscule doses in human volunteers so no damage is done; and artificial human skin in place of animal skin. Microfluidic chips and computers also provide exceptional recreations and predictions. In fact, many of these alternative methods are actually more cost-effective than testing on animals (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing? 2017). Hundreds of higher-end companies like Wet N’ Wild, Smashbox Cosmetics, Urban Decay, Tarte, Too Faced Cosmetics, Lush, Kiss My Face, and Bath & Body Works boast “cruelty-free” or “not tested on animals” plastered across their products or on their websites.
Over the last decades animal testing has become a routine process in the medical industry. The national anti-vivisection society states that animal testing is widely used than any method in laboratories. This testing is not only use in medicine industry but also cosmetic industry. It is such a cruel experiment that there are people who are against using animals as subjects in laboratories even though it had been a method which is used for many years. It is inhumane and not necessary since there are alternative methods that can be substitute for animal.
The practice of animal testing is a very debatable topic. “Each year, more than 100 million animals, including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in U.S. laboratories” (Experiments). “The term “animal testing” refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases assessing the effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and/or environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives, pharmaceuticals and industrial/agro-chemicals” (About). There is numerous pros and cons for using animals in experiments for humans for our everyday needs. There is different pros for animal testing including helping researchers to find drugs and treatments, help ensure safety of drugs, there are no other testing alternatives, and it provides an opportunity to examine a complete life cycle.
Millions of animals are abused and left to die a long exhausting death each year. Many people don’t know that the cosmetic products they own are tested to see if the products are safe for humans. In the process of the testing animals are tested using harmful chemicals that often burn the animal’s skins and the ruthless workers leaving them to die a long painful death. Animal testing is inhumane and should be banned. Animal testing kills and tortures millions of animals each year.
´´ (Mark Twain). First of all, animal testing is the use of different type of animals in medicine and cosmetics experiments, most of the animals used on it are mice, rats, fish, rabbits, dogs, monkeys and cats. Sometimes,
